frequency

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Repeated occurrence

Nouns — frequency, oftenness; repetition, recurrence, persistence; perse verance; prevalence; continuance; oscillation.

Verbs — do frequently; do nothing but, keep on, continue (see continuity) be frequent, persist; recur; repeat, hammer [away] at (see repetition).

Adjectives — frequent, many times, not rare, incessant, continual, constant everyday, repeated (see repetition); habitual (see habit).

Adverbs — often, oft, ofttimes, oftentimes, frequently, every time one turn around; repeatedly (see repetition); not unfrequently; in rapid succes sion; many a time, daily, hourly, every day; perpetually, continually, con stantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, night and day, day afte day; morning, noon and night; ever and anon; most often; commonly, ha bitually (see habit); sometimes, occasionally, between times, at times [every] now and then, [every] once in a while, [every] now and again, fror time to time, often enough, again and again, every so often; more ofte than not, in general. Informal, a lot.

Antonyms, see rarity.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The state or quality of being frequent]

Syn. recurrence, number, reiteration, repetition; see incidence , regularity .

2. [The number of occurrences in a unit of time]

Syn. beat, pulse, cycle, wavelength, radio wave, periodicity, pulsation, oscillation, rhythm, meter, round, rotation, rate.